Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actress Jacqueline Bisset was not eager to belt a 68-year-old grandmother in the face, but the old woman was not one bit impressed by her deferential pat on the cheek. "You'll have to hit me harder than that, dear, if the scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway...
...Green Belt. Hickel has obviously learned that the environment is becoming a hot political issue. By his lights, though, he has always been a conservationist. As he sees it, using natural resources wisely requires different approaches in different areas. He backs development in Alaska, where huge forests rot for lack of logging. He backs land preservation near cities where trees are vanishing. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Richard Saltonstall, he outlined his evolving ideas...
...graze a cow on half the land it takes now. Maybe we can improve on the time it takes to grow and harvest forests. Maybe we should conserve natural beauty not just for viewing but for putting oxygen back into the air and all the necessary things a green belt...
...part, the answer lies in the fact that this is a time of troubles for Cambridge. Long established neighborhoods--cohesive communities with churches, bars, and candy stores all their own--are being threatened by a host of outside forces--the proposed Inner Belt highway, the new NASA center, and above all, an influx of new, would-be residents who are soaking up housing and driving up rents. People do literally get thrown out of their homes in Cambridge though, it must be admitted, how many do is not known...
...insurance that one could stay the rest of one's days in the familial apartment, free from worries about rent increases. No matter that a rent control bill, any rent control bill, can't provide complete protection against rent raises, that it won't stop, the Inner Belt, or that it may even be impossible for Cambridge to pass a rent control ordinance without a specific enabling act from the state legislature--rent control seemed to offer the answer, a direct and personal assurance of safety in a time of peril...